HOLD BUSH AND CHENEY ACCOUNTABLE

THE WEIRD RIGHT WING WORLD

I'm watching the coverage of Senator Edward Kennedy's funeral and there is great sadness. The sadness is over the loss of Senator Kennedy, over the loss of JFK and RFK all those years ago, the loss of other great leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. We don't have leaders of that caliber or that vision left. Edward Kennedy was the torch that still burned and now his life has been extinguished.

The Fresno Bee prints snippets of letters to give you an idea of the content. Lately, when I see the usual frothing of right-wing freaks I don't bother to read the rest. Today's sampling included the assertion that liberals think we have all the answers. No, we don't. If we did, the world would be far better than it is. The hateful right-wing philosophy of greed, exploitation, bigotry, war, and hate would be shoved to the back of the closet. But right-wing influence is everywhere in the media.

For right-wingers there is never enough prejudice, never enough inequality, never enough death and destruction. It's like a narcotic for them.

I hope that we not only have leaders like JFK, RFK, and Edward Kennedy, but that we collectively become like them. That is when things will truly change.